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ResearchChemical analysis of Tartan questions cultural perceptions of 18th century Scotland
Anita Quye explains why the sciences and the humanities aren’t as disparate as we might think
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Fashion to dye for
Can colouring clothing be environmentally sustainable? Victoria Atkinson looks at how dyes have come full circle from their natural origins
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Discovery of microplastics in people raises difficult questions about health implications
Scientists keep finding tiny polymer particles in lungs, blood and placentas – but what does that mean means for people’s health?
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High performance fabric that can be made from plastic bags could slash fashion’s huge emissions
Polyethylene yarn can create clothes that are stain resistant, cool the wearer and are simple to recycle
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Giant glowing fabric made into shirtsleeve display
Flexible textile woven from conductive polymer and luminescent fibres made into wearable display and keyboard device
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Colour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment
Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating
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Business
Developing antiviral mask technology in a pandemic
Surface chemistry strategies play a pivotal role in personal protective equipment that can neutralise the Sars-CoV-2 virus
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Opinion
A dedicated follower of slow fashion
Our features editor has some clothes that are nearly old enough to vote
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Recycling clothing the chemical way
Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling
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Smart textile uses sweat as switch to keep wearer cool or warm
Material becomes more porous and can dissipate infrared radiation in response to moisture
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Reversible textile can keep you both cool and warm
Composite material can both suppress and enhance a body’s heat loss depending on which way round it is
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Carbon fibre gets a colourful makeover
Titanium dioxide structures allow super strong material to ditch dull reputation
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Business
BASF to buy Solvay’s polyamide business
€1.6bn deal covers 2400 employees at sites in Europe, Asia and the Americas
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The chemistry of the yellow jersey
Hayley Bennett tells the story of the 1948 Tour de France’s yellow jersey – and how synthetic fabrics came to dominate sportswear
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Fractal crystals win fashion design contest
Organic compounds form peculiar geometric crystals due to inefficient molecular stacking
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Nanotubes make Kevlar armour smarter
Conducting composite senses damage and stiffens on impact
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Dye detective work uncovers Perkin’s chemistry secrets
The pioneering Victorian chemist didn’t reveal all in his patent on the first synthetic purple dye
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Lab on skin can perform health check on athletes
New device analyses sweat biomarkers and communicates health data wirelessly to smartphone
